Boosting Interfacial Interaction in Hierarchical Core–Shell Nanostructure for Highly Effective Visible Photocatalytic Performance

Autor: Zebao Rui, Lin Gu, Kaihang Ye, Muhammad-Sadeeq Balogun, Fenglian Xian, Xiaozhi Liu, Yongqing Wang, Jiejing Kong, Hongbing Ji
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122:6137-6143
ISSN: 1932-7455
1932-7447
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b00040
Popis: The major challenges faced by photocatalyst include poor visible-light response, low-efficient charge separation, and serious photoexcited electrons recombination. The nature of hybrid photocatalysts interfacial interaction plays a major role in improving these challenges. Here, highly active and stable visible photocatalytic performance of toxic organics mineralization is realized by a TiO2-based hierarchical core–shell nanostructure, TiO2@SrTiO3@Pt@Bi2O3@Pt (denoted as TSPBP). TSPBP simultaneously exhibits the following advantages: (1) the multilayered core–shell structure extends the visible-light response and enhances light harvesting; (2) bridging with Pt at the intermediate enhances the electron interaction between the different semiconductor layers and lowers charge transfer resistance; (3) deposition of Pt nanoparticles at the outmost layer could stabilize photoexcited electrons for suppressing charge recombination and activate the adsorbed oxygen. These beneficial factors lead to the remarkably h...
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